GNU-Friends Interviews 93
Jonas Öberg writes "GNU-Friends is doing a series of interviews with long-time free software hackers that I think people would be interested in. Check out interviews with Arnold Robbins, Karl Berry, Andrew L. Moore, Guido van Rossum, David MacKenzie and Chet Ramey. More to come, but that should keep people occupied for a few minutes." The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.
GNU/Friends (Score:4, Funny)
Re:GNU/Friends (Score:1)
Re:GNU/Friends (Score:2, Funny)
then it sure won't be GNU/Girlfriend, that is something that won't be shared
Re:GNU/Friends (Score:2, Informative)
Sigh, another misunderstanding of the GPL. You don't have to distribute your GNU/Girlfriend at all. It's just that if you do, you also have to share a complete sample of her DNA.
The DNA sample can either be provided with the GNU/Girlfriend, or you can keep it on file and run off copies as people request them, for a reasonable media (test tube? DVD-ROM of sequence? not sure) duplication fee.
Re:GNU/Friends (Score:1)
Re:GNU/Friends (Score:4, Funny)
That's right, and GNU/Joey, GNU/Chandler, GNU/Rachel...
Admit it. Without the GNU tools, those people would be nothing at all.
Free as in Freedom (Score:2)
You gotta pay if you wanna play.
GNU superfriends? (Score:2, Funny)
GNUsaders! [cjb.net] Open Source crusaders for justice!
Re:GNU superfriends? (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't that make them the GNUperfriends?
just a thought
Re:GNU superfriends? (Score:2)
monolinux.com
Re:GNU superfriends? (Score:2)
GNUperfriends? (Score:2)
Yes - GNUperfriends!
Re:GNU superfriends? (Score:1)
Re:GNU superfriends? (Score:1)
Excelsior!
Re:Im never gonna be good at the posting links gam (Score:1)
Server not responding (Score:1)
gnuenemies.org
if we're sending
hmm... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, the number of free sofware hackers who are women is very, very small, on the order of 1%, and almost none of these women has any leadership role. However, there is one woman who would make an excellent interview subject, and who does have a leadership role (at the Gnome Foundation): Telsa Gwynne [linux.org.uk].
She herself would probably deny being a "free software hacker", though her testing and documentation work is critical to making the Gnome desktop a high-quality product.
Good Point! (Score:2)
If you mail the people who are running that site and suggest some female hackers who do good GPL'd work, I daresay you might actually see some of those interviews go up too. I know they'd attract a lot of attention, and they'd be a good change of pace, you're right.
Now, not to be sexist, I know that there are GNU hackers out there that are female, but I really can't think of any of their names off of the top of my head. Many people have heard of some of the core GNU hackers, but I'm having a hard time remembering the names of some of the female ones I've heard about.
Change that! Mail the people at gnu-friends and make some suggestions! Please just don't sit back and gripe about the lack of interviews with women if you're not willing to suggest anyone.
FLOSS survey-takers 99% male (Score:2)
Only one in a hundred [infonomics.nl], if Rishab Ghosh's FLOSS Survey [infonomics.nl] is a representative sample.
Re:hmm... (Score:2)
There really aren't that many famous female free software hackers. I can think of a famous female free software MANAGER and a WRITER but few software developers. That's really amazing and deserves further investigation. Female software developers are a small minority to start with but somehow open source/free software seems to weed them out even more. I could hypothesize why this is (probably a variety of reasons) but I think it deserves indepth study. It would be great to poll male and female CS graduates on a variety of ambitions and emotions and then track which ones become open source hackers. It would also be useful to track their career paths. If most women are pushed into relationship-oriented jobs (management, marketing, phone support) then they may not have the opportunity to even play with open source software enough to want to contribute to it.
Female hackers (Score:1)
I've found that the female programmers I know are some of the most interesting, intelligent, well-spoken, and polite people I've ever met. And they give good interviews.
Re:Female hackers (Score:1)
Okay, you asked for some examples... (Score:1)
GNU/Friends! (Score:2, Funny)
Shape of
Form of
na.na.na.nah.na.na.na.nah.na.naaa....
Just so all you lonely geeks know.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just so all you lonely geeks know.... (Score:3, Funny)
./configure
make
make install
Re:Just so all you lonely geeks know.... (Score:1)
Hmm, all alone...
BSD enemies (Score:1)
Would like to have a contest... (Score:2, Offtopic)
PPA, the girl next door.
Re:Would like to have a contest... (Score:1)
Good looking people (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Would like to have a contest... (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, three of the four guys you mention are married, and the fourth has a girlfriend (yes, shocking as it may seem, there is a woman who finds RMS very attractive), so I guess they are sexy to someone.
DOA! (Score:2, Funny)
I mean here's Gnothing there.
is this a new DNS entry? (Score:2)
Re:is this a new DNS entry? (Score:3, Informative)
Karl Berry mirror courtesy of google cache (Score:2, Informative)
Karl Berry [google.com]
GPL? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:GPL? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:GPL? (Score:1)
Does that mean you keep your non-GPL friends locked in a closet?
[ah, well, I guess it's one way of promoting the GPL!]
/.'ed (Score:1)